Etymograph

English

mine

Mine comes from Middle English min, from Old English mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz ‘my’, from PIE *méynos.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*méynos1reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*mīnaz1‘my’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*mīn1‘my’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150mīn1
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500min1
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1610–1611mine1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English mine
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest: “[…] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*méynosWiktionary, English minereconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*mīnazWiktionary, English mine‘my’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*mīnWiktionary, English mine‘my’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150mīnWiktionary, English mine
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500minWiktionary, English mine
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1610–1611mineWiktionary, English mine. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest: “[…] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that…”

Linked words

through Old English mīn

my, 1 more

through Middle English min

min, 1 more

Another origin of mine

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEmina
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400mine
  3. Englishtodaymine

Another origin of mine

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentmine
  2. Englishtodaymine

Today it means

pron Used predicatively.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “mine”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *méynos / mine

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